PM TO CUT TRIPS ABROAD THIS YEAR

NEW DELHI: Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Modi is set to cut down his for­eign vis­its in 2016, trav­el­ling abroad only when it is ab­so­lutely nec­es­sary so that he can de­vote more time to is­sues of do­mes­tic im­por­tance.

He has asked the ex­ter­nal af­fairs min­istry to keep his for­eign en­gage­ments in 2016 to the min­i­mum and his travel plans, as of now, is re­stricted to a couple of vis­its abroad in the first half of the year and in­ter­na­tional sum­mits in the lat­ter.